Me too. I hated everything about the NFL scandals recently, but this is something else. This is the final straw in a clear lack of care by both the MLB administration and it's literal gang of haughty evil (not incompetent, evil) umpires. The point can't be made while we still watch. I'm truly done with baseball through the MLB. Just means more soccer/independent baseball for me. I am not going to support this junk anymore.

Yeah, as a Braves fan I had a feeling we would lose this one. 5 WS appearances in an 8 year stretch with only one ring sort of turns you into a fatalist. The fact that we finished 6 games ahead of them meant we were destined to lose.

Even though Chipper was leaving and the last component of my childhood team was gone, I was still going to follow the game in the future. No more, however. I am done with baseball, it's been dead for years, we've just now seen the obituary.

Braves fans:the people making sure Dodger fans aren't the worst in baseball

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“To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

No they wouldn't have. A good fanbase isn't going to do what the idiots did last night. A northeast team, sure. Cubs, Oakland, sure. Dodger fan wouldn't, because he's gone before the 8th inning. But Cardinals fan? No way. Twins fan? Not going to happen. Reds, Brewers, probably not.

But that's not why Atlanta has the sh**ttiest fans. It's the fact that nobody goes to games if the Braves aren't leading the division (despite the fact that they have some of the cheapest tickets in baseball). They fight for a playoff spot to a half empty stadium. They've failed to sell out playoff games for Og's sake.

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“To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

No they wouldn't have. A good fanbase isn't going to do what the idiots did last night. A northeast team, sure. Cubs, Oakland, sure. Dodger fan wouldn't, because he's gone before the 8th inning. But Cardinals fan? No way. Twins fan? Not going to happen. Reds, Brewers, probably not.

Any fanbase who gives that little a sh**t as to sit back and take that sh**t-eating-grin-umpire-ing is one of the problems with baseball, not the "good" fans. Fans loyal to these umps and this Front Office are enemies of baseball as a sport. I hate the Braves, but God bless their resistance.

No they wouldn't have. A good fanbase isn't going to do what the idiots did last night. A northeast team, sure. Cubs, Oakland, sure. Dodger fan wouldn't, because he's gone before the 8th inning. But Cardinals fan? No way. Twins fan? Not going to happen. Reds, Brewers, probably not.

But that's not why Atlanta has the sh**ttiest fans. It's the fact that nobody goes to games if the Braves aren't leading the division (despite the fact that they have some of the cheapest tickets in baseball). They fight for a playoff spot to a half empty stadium. They've failed to sell out playoff games for Og's sake.

Yeah, I'm sure if an umpire were to - hypothetically, of course- make a bad call that would, say, potentially cost the Cardinals the World Series, I'm sure said umpire would never receive any death threats from Cardinals fans and would never have to contact MLB security or the FBI.

Although let's be honest here - Cardinals fans may be the most likely to live in trailer parks, sport neckbeards, mullets, and pedophile moustaches, and consider Busch light to be the pinacle of American brewing, they at least go to games. South Florida probably has the worst and most undeserving-of-sports-championships-fanbase in North America.

No they wouldn't have. A good fanbase isn't going to do what the idiots did last night. A northeast team, sure. Cubs, Oakland, sure. Dodger fan wouldn't, because he's gone before the 8th inning. But Cardinals fan? No way. Twins fan? Not going to happen. Reds, Brewers, probably not.

Any fanbase who gives that little a sh**t as to sit back and take that sh**t-eating-grin-umpire-ing is one of the problems with baseball, not the "good" fans. Fans loyal to these umps and this Front Office are enemies of baseball as a sport. I hate the Braves, but God bless their resistance.

What does being "loyal" to the umps or "this Front Office" have to do with not acting like infants? There is no reason to rain garbage on to the field because a call doesn't go your way. There is never a reason to rain garbage on to the playing field.

Yeah, I'm sure if an umpire were to - hypothetically, of course- make a bad call that would, say, potentially cost the Cardinals the World Series, I'm sure said umpire would never receive any death threats from Cardinals fans and would never have to contact MLB security or the FBI.

There is no way fans in Busch Stadium would ever act in the way those in Atlanta did last night. Yeah, a few fans were stupid in 85, but it's really not the same thing.

Although let's be honest here - Cardinals fans may be the most likely to live in trailer parks, sport neckbeards, mullets, and pedophile moustaches, and consider Busch light to be the pinacle of American brewing, they at least go to games. South Florida probably has the worst and most undeserving-of-sports-championships-fanbase in North America.

I'd bet dollars to donuts that Brave fan is more likely to be what you described than Cardinal fan. I've lived in both places and the fanbases couldn't be further apart in their knowledge and respect for the game. Yes, there are asshat Cardinals fans, but they are WAY in the minority.

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“To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness